Australian Education Pathways

Wollongong, NSW

Community intelligence — schools, kids activities & area indicators

Area advantage (CAI) 82 · top 18% of suburbsHigher advantageYear 12 65.3%9 schools1 activity

Schools Activities

Which school is my address zoned to?

Homes in Wollongong fall into different school catchments, and the nearest school is often not the zoned one. 4 of the 9 schools here have a mapped enrolment zone; we hold no published boundary for the other 5. Only an exact address settles it.

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Schools in Wollongong

9 schools in Wollongong: 6 government, 3 independent.

Highest-scoring schools here (among the 5 of 9 schools here that publish school-level data — attendance or destinations)
  1. Mount St Thomas Public School 79
  2. Lindsay Park Public School 77
  3. Smiths Hill High School 75
SchoolSectorTypeYearsEnrolAttend.School score
Mount St Thomas Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary K–6354 92.5%79
Lindsay Park Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary K–6334 91.7%77
Smiths Hill High School Academic (Selective)GovernmentSecondary 7–12735 91%75
Wollongong Public School Academic (Selective)GovernmentPrimary K–6579 89.6%71
Wollongong West Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary K–6243 86.7%65
Aspect South Coast School Campus (Aspect South Coast School, Wollongong University)IndependentCombined Prescribed Kind, Kindergarten to Year 3 and Years 7 to 12— —n/a
Illawarra Hospital SchoolGovernmentSpecial Special (varies)— —n/a
Novo EducationIndependentSecondary Years 9 to 12— —n/a
St Mary Star of the Sea CollegeIndependentSecondary Years 7 to 12— —n/a

Enrol is the department's own count: NSW government schools, August census, FTE (full-time-equivalent students at the department's August census, government schools — the department's file does not say which year's census). Departments count enrolment in different ways and years, so a figure is comparable only with others from the same series. It is a size figure, not a quality one.

Attend. is the department's own figure: NSW, Semester 1 2024, counting students in Years 1–10 only (the national reporting standard). Attendance is compared only within a state — do not set it beside another state's figure. Why ▸

School score is shown only where the school itself publishes a signal — attendance (NSW & SA) or university destinations (VIC). n/a means no such figure is published for that school, so we will not print one: the remaining signals describe Wollongong as an area and are identical for every school in it. Our estimate from open data — not ICSEA, not an official rating.

Property listings in Wollongong

Homes for sale · Rentals (realestate.com.au — a suburb search, not a catchment search: confirm any address with the Zone check above.)

Kids activities in Wollongong

Football & Sports Clubs (1)

  • WIN Stadium

Activity base data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Some suburb assignments are estimated from provider coordinates and are labelled. Age range, pricing and class times are not verified — contact providers directly.

Universities & TAFE in Wollongong

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